UPDATE: New Writing about Fly Fishing (10/21/05; collection)

As fly fishing drifts downstream into the 21st century, anglers arefaced with over-pressured streams and lakes, declining water quality,and public indifference. In spite of this, we fish. Why? What do weget out of it? This proposed collection, Fishing the Angles: NewWriting about Fly Fishing, is looking for works that capture the meaningand magic (or the lack of meaning and magic) of this most literary ofOutdoor Sports. Though works may well veer off into other areas, fishingor nature should at least be more than tangential to the story. Inother words, tell us-show us-what fly fishing means and how it works.

Fishing the Angles seeks:

o Fictiono Poetryo Memoiro Creative Non-Fictiono Historyo Criticism

Prose works should be less than 5000 words. Previously publishedworks-prose and poetry-are acceptable. Email submissions are preferred,as attachments in .rtf or .doc format or pasted into the body of theemail.